I got another version in Devon, where a verse runs:—
'I'll give you a house wherein you may be,
Where you may be kept fast without any key.'
The answer is:—
'O my heart is the house wherein you may abide,
And not a key is wanted to keep you inside.'
LXV. GIRLS AND BOYS
Very generally known. Halliwell's 'Nursery Rhymes'; Crane's 'Baby's Opera,' etc.
LXVI. MRS. BOND
This appears with music in 'The Nightingale,' 1831, p. 285. It is given in Mr. Crane's 'Baby's Opera.'
LXVII. THE LITTLE COCK-SPARROW
The air in 'The Baby's Bouquet,' etc.
LXVIII. THE GOOSE AND GANDER
Miss Mason's 'Nursery Rhymes,' with air. This rhyme is quite new to me, and is probably north-country.
LXIX. AIKEN DRUM
A north-country nursery song. The air in 'The Baby's Bouquet.'
LXX. PUSSY-CAT
The air also in 'The Baby's Bouquet.'
LXXI. THE BONNIE PIT LADDIE
A north-country colliers' wives' song, given by Mr. J. Stagg in the 'Early English Musical Magazine' for March 1891. This promising periodical unhappily expired for lack of sufficient support. Mr. Stagg says that this song is quoted in a play, 'The Love-Sick King,' which was printed in 1655. This play was by Anthony Brewer, and was on the story of Cartismandua.
